Improvement in the manufacture of paper



ante $211 25 OARLETON B. HUTOHINS, OF ANN ARBORdflOHlGAN.

Letters Patent No. 109,621, dated November 29, 1870.,

IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PAPER.

The Schedule referred to in ,these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

I, GARLETONB. Hummus, of Ann Arbor, in the county of Washtenaw, in the State of Michigan, have invented an Improvement in Producing-Paper of .va-

rions kinds.

The nature of my invention consists in mixing the potato'pomacewhich comes from the mannfactui'ing ofpotato-starch with the various kinds of pulps manufitetured from the different kinds of straw, grass, hay, rags, and junk, either separate or combined, in the nianufiictnring of paper.

Iadd the pomace after the other pulp is prepared, in. quantities substantially as follows:

F0r'straw-board,--I use half each of straw and pomace.

F01 wrapping paper, I use one-quarter pomace, oneeighth hard stock orjnnk, so called, and the balance in either of the pulps made from straw or grasses. For other kinds of paper. I vary the quantity according to the kind of paper I may wish to make.

If I wish to make white paper, I bleach the pom-. aoeas other pulps are. treated.

I am careful ,not to grind the pomace much in miX- ing, as it is pulped enough when it comes from the grater.

will readily soak up-and become "the same as when green.

The introduction of this poinace saves a-great'ex- Witnesses:

R. J. MEIGS, J-r., WM. F. MATTINGLY.

I use thepomace either green or dried. Thedried 

